Sentinel-2A liftoff

Replay of the Sentinel-2A liftoff on a Vega launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana at 01:52 GMT (03:52 CEST) on 23 June 2015. Sentinel-2A is the second satellite to be launched for Europe’s Copernicus environment monitoring programme. Designed as a two-satellite constellation – Sentinel-2A and -2B – the Sentinel-2 mission carries an innovative wide swath high-resolution multispectral imager with 13 spectral bands for a new perspective of our land and vegetation. This information will be used fo